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First up, we checked back in with folks involved in the struggle to block the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303 mile so-called natural gas pipeline proposed to bring fracked gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale formations across parts of West Virginia and Virginia with an extension into North Carolina. Since a chat with activists we had in July, there have been nearly weekly actions to block the expansion of the pipeline across waterways and carsed terraine, endangering water tables and...
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This week on the show, we’ll be sharing a shared presentation by Dr. Modibo Kadalie recorded at the 2023 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville. Modibo is joined by his friend Andrew Zonneveld of On Our Own Authority Books and they share a new bookstore and community space in Stone Mountain, Georgia, known as Community Books . From the presentation description: "A scholar-activist with over 60 years of experience in the Civil Rights, Black Power, Pan-African, and...
Topics: anarchist, socialecology, drmodibokadalie, andrewzonneveld, sarafalconer, joshdavidson,...
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This week's show features four segments: an announcement from IGD Podcast; an anti-Zionist Jewish voice from Palestine; an interview of two anti-repression activists on the harassment of two antifascist activists in Budapest, Hungary; Sean Swain's segment. Reflections of a Jewish Anti-Zionist from Palestine First up, we’re featuring the voice of a Jewish anti-Zionist anarchist living in lands occupied by the Israeli state. We speak about some of his experiences of trying to resist the ongoing...
Topics: palestine, israel, zionism, war, colinization, settler-colonialism, interview, hungary, fascism,...
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We’re sharing here a recent conversation that I had with Thomas Meyer-Falk, an anarchist who just finished a 27 year prison stint in Germany to speak about his life, his incarceration and his hopes now that he’s out. Thomas was involved in a bank robbery in 1996 as a young RASH anarchist skinhead who hoped to fund above ground and underground leftist organizing and continued to be incarcerated for the threats he made upon his capture. While inside he toned it down a bit, became a jailhouse...
Topics: anarchist, prison, prisoner, anarchistprisoner, germany, politicalprisoner, abolition
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This week, Ian talks to Sean Carleton of Graphic History Collective and Labor historian and activist Iain McIntyre about the recent release of Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe by PM Press. After some background on their respective projects, they talk about the legacy of the IWW cartoonist, the origins and process of putting the book together, and what aspects of his work are still relevant today. Here’s a hint: just about all of them are. Transcript PDF...
Topics: pmpress, iww, labor, cartoon, comic, author, history
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This week on The Final Straw, we’re excited to share a panel discussion recorded at Firestorm Books entitled Against Genocide: A Palestinian Solidarity Panel , recorded on Sunday, October 22 nd 2023. Transcription From the event description: “With the "iron-clad" support of the United States and other Western powers, Israel has made explicit its plan for the systematic destruction of Gaza and the Palestinian people. At this event, participants—including Palestinian and Jewish...
Topics: palestine, israel, asheville, firestorm, panel, gaza, war, genocide, usa
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This week on the show, we’re featuring an interview I did recently with Sona, an anarcha-feminist from Yerevan, Armenia, about her experience of anarchism and some of the solidarity efforts related to supporting Armenians expelled from Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave within the borders of the neighboring country of Azerbaijan. Recent crimethInc articles: Anarchist Voices from Armenia and Azerbaijan : On the Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh Solidarity among the Displaced: How Russian...
Topics: anarchist, armenia, azerbaijan, war, genocide, russia, usa, france, turkey
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This week on the show, we’re featuring an interview with 3 activists involved in the Emergency Committee for Rojava about recent developments in Rojava, escalation of violence from the Turkish state and the KDP party-led Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq, experiences of recent visits to the region, updates on the US relationship to aggressive regimes in the region and other topics. If you are listening to the radio edition of this show, check out the podcast for another half hour of...
Topics: rojava, syria, turkey, usa, iraq, krg, kdp, ypg, ypj, jineology
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December 8th Affair Trial in France is Under Way Hey listeners, this mid-week podcast release features the words of anarchists involved in or doing support for the December 8 th Affair in France, in which 9 people were arrested at the end of 2020, following Movement for Black Lives protests took place around the world to challenge police impunity and racism. The French state is asserting, based on some pretty flimsy arguments, that 7 radical and anarchist folks were a part of a conspiracy to...
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This week we’re sharing a recent interview with Joey Ayoub, host of The Fire These Times podcast to talk a bit about #solarpunk . Joey was on the show with Leila Al-Shami some years ago to speak about revolution and civil war in Syria, uprisings in Lebanon and Iraq. For the hour, we speak about the importance of radical imagination, the artistic genre known as solar punk, technology and it’s role in societies based on pleasure and leisure, utopian movements of the past and the decentering...
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The following is a presentation by anarchists from Ukraine and Belarus, alongside a question and answer portion with the audience, conducted in part via live translation services. This panel is facilitated in part by Nina of Anarchist Black Cross Dresden , and features presentations by Masha (Belarus) an anarchist in Warsaw, Nastya is a member of Solidarity Zone (not speaking on behalf of that group), Mira from Anarchist Black Cross Kyiv and Solidarity Collectives and Boris of Belarus Anarchist...
Topics: anarchist, ria, stimier, belarus, ukraine, russia, war, mutualaid
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Ian speaks with journalist Shea Hennum about their article on #comicsbrokeme, in which workers in the comics industry shared their stories of tight deadlines, unreasonable workloads, and low pay following the death of cartoonist Ian McGinty. For the article, which appeared at solrad.co , they applied an analysis that synthesized communist and anarchist traditions in order to identify a multitude of sites of political struggle, challenge systems of domination and violence, and chart possible...
Topics: comic, cartoon, cartoonist, labor, union, organizing, capitalism, publishingindustry
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This week, we’re featuring an interview with Matt Scott of the Atlanta Community Press Collective update us on the movement to Stop Cop City in light of the recent indictment of 61 people on Racketeering charges by the state of Georgia at the end of August and the legal shenanigans of the city to block a public referendum on the police training center that would destroy the south Atlanta forest and river. We'll also hear about recent non-violent civil disobediences and the call for a mass...
Topics: stopcopcity, altanta, police, copcity, atlantageorgia, rico, netherlands, nobordercamp, protest
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This week, we’re sharing 3 segments. First up, Josh Davidson from the Certain Days: Freedom For Political Prisoners Calendar talks about the upcoming book that he co-edited with political prisoner Eric King from AK Press entitled RATTLING THE CAGES: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners , containing over 450 pages of first hand experiences of resisting from within the belly of the beast across generations and movements in Turtle Island. And you can find out more about the...
Topics: seanswain, abc, anarchistprisoner, politicalprisoner, ppow, nationaljericho, movement, anarchist,...
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This week on TFSR, we’ll be airing a presentation by Diane Stevens, a member of the Jane Collective in Chicago in the 1960’s. This presentation was recorded at the 2023 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, NC. From the presentation description: The Abortion Counseling Service, now better known as Jane, started out as a referral service in Chicago in the late 1960s, providing counseling and support to women before and after their procedures. Members of the group...
Topics: abortion, history, janecollective, dianestevens, asheville, roevwade, healthcare, acabookfair
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This week, you’ll hear an interview we conducted with researcher and journalist Jessica Pishko about the upcoming, September 9 th Constitutional Sheriff & Peace Officers Association gathering in Cherokee, North Carolina. For the hour, Jessica talks about the office of Sheriff in the US, the CSPOA and Constitutional Sheriff movement, their ties to militia or other far-right wing and white nationalist formations and related topics. You can find Jessica’s blog at Sheriffs.SubStack.Com ....
Topics: cspoa, consistutional sheriff, jessica pishko, far right, usa, law enforcement, posse comitatus,...
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The following is a collection of audios recorded at the 2023 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, NC, on occupied Tsalagi land in southern Appalachia. This is not a complete collection of the presentations as some did not consent to being recorded and a few are still being edited. You can find more about the bookfairs, past and future, at ACABookfair.NoBlogs.Org “A Halfway Concise History of Anarchism” -Margaret Killjoy Time: Sat Aug 12 3-4pm Location: W AVL Library A...
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The following is an interview we conducted with Katka and Hazel, who both live in the UK and were recently back from Bakur, the portion of Kurdistan within the borders of Turkey. For 2 hours the guests speak about the political violence from Erdogan’s ruling AKP, suppression of the Kurdish movement, electoral strategies, democratic confederalism, political prisoners and the F-Type prisons in Turkey, the earthquakes from earlier in the year, widespread corruption and other topics. We hope you...
Topics: rojava, turkey, bakur, erdogan, election, 2023, earthquake, kurdishmovement, interview
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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Matthew N Lyons of Three Way Fight blog about the political legacy of Lyndon LaRouche, cultic leftist turned fascist US political figure from the 1970’s through his death in 2019. For the hour, Matthew and I talk about the network of organizations and publications of the LaRouche movement, some of their approaches toward peeling adherents from the left, antisemitic conspiracy theories he innovated, methods his movement used to control followers and...
Topics: antifascist, lyndonlarouche, redbrown, fascist, fascism, antisemitism, conspiracism,...
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This week, we feature two segments First up, former co-host on the show Scott talks about the upcoming Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair happening the weekend of August 11 – 13 th , some of the content and notes on access, as well as mentioning some new projects their involved with. You can learn more about the bookfair by visiting ACABookfair.noblogs.org , the project’s instagram , facebook or mastodon . Then, Fern from the International Anarchist Defense Fund (AFund.Info) talks about...
Topics: anarchist, prisoner, politicalprisoner, anarchistdefencefund, acabookfair, asheville, ashevillenc,...
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Here we are presenting Ian’s interview with members of Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness , a collectively run publisher of radical podcasts, fiction, zines, games, and much more. We discuss the kickstarter fundraiser the group just launched to fund their tabletop RPG, Penumbra City , their history with games and with each other, world building, the value of goal-free play, and how it might be applied to projects and organizing. You can watch a playthrough of the game on youtube ....
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First up, Ian interviews Josh MacPhee and Alec Dunn, co-editors of Signal , about the recently published eighth volume of the Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. They discuss their motivations and experiences producing Signal for over a decade, designing print media in the digital age, and their work as part of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative , long-running, geographically dispersed artist collective dedicated to the production of radical art for grassroots movements. Then,...
Topics: pmpress, anarchist, alecdunn, joshmacphee, justseeds, graphicart, signaljournal, mwalimushakur,...
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On The Work of Sex Work with Matilda Bickers We’re happy to share our recent chat with Matilda Bickers , co-editor and contributor to the recent PM Press collection Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex . For the hour we talk about labor organizing in the erotic industries, Matilda’s past experiences in publishing, hangups around sex work in radical communities and related topics. [ 00:01:00 - 00:43:02] Harm Reduction and Advocacy Green Light Project, Seattle Twitter: @GLPsea Facebook:...
Topics: anarchist, crnaluknja, ezln, chiapas, civilwar, zapatista, mexico, paramilitary, sexwork, feminism,...
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This week, we’re sharing a conversation with Rose and Crystal, two comrades involved in the struggle against the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 304 mile, 41 inch in diameter liquified so-called natural gas pipeline with a possible 75 mile extension crossing many delicate waterways, slopes and communities across Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina. Past episodes with MVP resisters found here . This project has been off and on under construction since 2018 and was recently forced through at...
Topics: mountainvalleypipeline, mvp, appalachia, frackedgas, lng, ecodefense, westvirginia, virginia,...
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Here’s our interview with Shannon Clay , co-author of We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action . For this episode, Shannon and I walk through the book, covering some of the history of the network, how it evolved, challenges it faced, and invitations to discuss current day anti-fascist and anti-racist organizing on Turtle Island. Shannon also suggests co-authors Kristin Schwartz and Michael Staudenmaier podcast interview on The Brief about Canadian ARA history:...
Topics: antfiascist, history, pmpress, author, usa, canada, antiracist, punk, subculture, antirascist, ara,...
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This week, you’ll hear two segments. First, an interview with Matthew Scott, a journalist with ACPC in Atlanta to talk about recent developments with the struggle against Cop City, the building of a giant police training facility with a simulated cityscape for urban counter insurgency training for law enforcement from around the USA & around the world in a forest in Atlanta, Georgia. You can read Matthews work at ATLPressCollective.Com . We review the development of the project and the...
Topics: switzerland, anarchist, antiauthoritarian, st-imier, weelaunee, stopcopcity,...
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This week we chatted with Jasmine, an anthropologist and activist involved in the migrant solidarity and freedom of movement cultural organization called Maldusa which is based in some of the southern most reaches of Italy in Palermo, Sicily, and the island of Lampedusa and in the Mediterranean Sea. We speak for the hour about migration across the sea, what drives and draws people to make the treacherous journey, state, para state and civil institutions on both sides of the sea engaging the...
Topics: immigrant, refugees, italy, europe, eu, frontex, borders, maldusa, mediterranean, freedomofmovement
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In the near future we'll broadcast this on the radio, and we'll upload an fcc-friendly radio edit at that time. Meanwhile, here's the podcast! Scott talked with members of Femboys Against Fascism, a group based in Liverpool countering anti-migrant protests. The local far right, along with Patriotic Alternative and other ghouls, have been trying to displace refugees being housed in hotels in and around Liverpool in the UK, using the usual fearmongering tactics about crime and danger. The Femboys...
Topics: antifascist, antifa, liverpool, fascist, immigrant, migrant, uk, riot, police, border
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In this discussion, we talk with two trans organizers in Missouri about the recently withdrawn emergency rule made by the state Attorney General Andrew Bailey. At the time, the emergency rule, which was one of the most far reaching bans on trans access to affirming medical care, had been stayed by the courts and was awaiting further hearing. The Attorney General withdrew the ruling, claiming that it was no longer needed because the Missouri legislature had passed two bills that removed access...
Topics: anarchist, trans, queer, missouri, usa, law, andrewbailey, healthcare, transhealth
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May 28, 2023
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June 11th & Long Term Prisoner Support This week, we’re offering a few pieces of content. A longer version can be found in the podcast, alongside complete show notes. First up, after some announcements concerning a local case of police brutality and jail issues in Buncombe County, NC, we’ll hear a statement from Mark “Mustafa” Hinkston , a politicized prisoner we first heard from some years back, who is being held in Ohio about the cruelty of his keeping. His letter can be found on...
Topics: anarchist, prisoner, prisonersolidarity, june11, georgefloyduprising, antirepression, interview,...
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May 21, 2023
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This week, we’re sharing a recent chat with Devi Machete, an anarchist involved in the Tijuana mutual aid project known as Contra Viento y Marea Comedor Comunitario which distributes clothing, medical supplies, meals and boxes of stable food throughout the week at the border with the USA. The project, known for short as El Comedor Comunitario is launching a free school and art laboratory in June. For the hour, we talk about the migrant caravan in 2018 that gave rise to El Comedor Comunitario,...
Topics: immigration, mexico, hondorus, guatemala, tijuana, usa, border, mutualaid, title42, anarchist
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May 15, 2023
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This week, a new contributor, Ian, talks to cartoonist and educator Johnny Damm about his recent releases I’m a cop, featuring dialogue from Police Union speeches and Riot Comics: Tompkins Square Park , which explores the 1988 Tompkins Square Riot in which Police evicted an unhoused encampment in the park on New York’s Lower East Side. They discuss the collage technique by which Damm assembles his comics, how his work dovetails with the larger work of abolition, and the role of propaganda...
Topics: cartoon, comic, graphicart, police, policebrutality, riot, détournement
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May 7, 2023
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Our interview with journalist and community organizer, Kit O’Connell (of the Texas Observer ), and anarchist and activist lorén (of QTPIE or Queer and Trans People Illuminate Everything). Both folks are trans folks in Austin, Texas, and we speak for the hour about the increasing legal and social oppression of trans and gender non-conforming folks in that state as well as across the so-called USA, some of its impacts on trans children and children of trans parents, organizing, allyship and...
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This week, we’re sharing an interview with 2 contributors an amazing history of anti-racist organizing in the late 1980’s through the mid 1990’s in Portland, Oregon, and with ripples across the so-called USA & beyond. In 2020 KBOO radio released a serialized podcast which became the basis for the book. It Did Happen Here: Podcast Book Instagram Mic Crenshaw: website twitter facebook instagram bandcamp Moe Bowstern Instagram The A-Zone People Mic mentioned who were attacked for being...
Topics: anarchist, antifascist, antiracist, history, portland, pdx, ara, pmpress, workingclasshistory,...
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This week, we’re sharing two portions. Transcript of SFLARC PDF (Unimposed) - pending Zine (Imposed PDF) - pending South Florida Anti-Repression Committee First up, a chat with two members of the South Florida Anti-Repression Committee doing solidarity for the 4 queer activists facing up to 12 years in Federal prison on charges related to graffiti at a Pregnancy Crisis Center, aka a building funded by church and state to dissuade people from getting abortions. The Department of Justice is...
Topics: slovenia, bulgaria, crnaluknja, antifa, antifascist, anarchist, florida, desantis, abortion,...
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Views On Recent French Protests Here’s a chat we just had with 4 radicals in France. Rather than introduce them, I’ll let them do that themselves. We talk about the recent protests and riots in France concerning reforms to the pension system that would push back the age of retirement and increase the amount of years someone has to work in order to retire, the legal manipulation by Macron’s neoliberal government to get it passed, the composition of the demos, the recent ecological...
Topics: anticapitalist, france, macron, darmanin, pension, retirement, immigration, neoliberal,...
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This week, we’re sharing part of our April 26th, 2020 interview with Barry Pateman. Barry, born in the early 1950’s, grew up in a working class coal mining town of Doncaster in the UK and became an anarchist in the 1960’s in London. He is a longstanding member of the Kate Sharpley Library which covers histories of little-known anarchists and events in history. Barry has also contributed to and edited numerous books including “Chomsky on Anarchism”, a two book document collection with...
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We’re happy to share this chat with Leah and Payton, directors of the upcoming documentary series “The Elements of Mutual Aid”. The series is about to enter post-production once they’ve gotten JUST a little more footage to add to their 5 years of work. For the hour, we talk about the series, their concepts of mutual aid, the process of radically respectful film making and some of their inspirations. Filmmakers links: Fundraiser: https://seedandspark.com/fund/elements-of-mutual-aid...
Topics: anarchist, flim, filmmaking, documentary, theelementsofmutualaid, mutualaid
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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Leo, an anarchist and eco-feminist from Russia who has temporary relocated to Europe after facing political repressions. Leo is a co-organizer with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance movement ( Facebook in English, Telegram in Russian, LinkTr.Ee ), a network of activists in and outside of Russia involved in struggling against the war in Ukraine and the Putin regime. For the hour we speak about Russians facing repression for speaking out against the war...
Topics: feministantiwarresistance, russia, feminist, antiwar, ukraine, anarchist, putin, emigre
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This week: a chat with Pip, a defendant in, and Grace , a supporter of, the Aston Park Defendants case which led to the arrest of 16 people, including 2 journalists for the Asheville Blade , many facing various charges of felony littering and conspiracy to felony litter. You can read some background to this in the words fo the Sanctuary Park defendants at AVLSolidarity.NoBlogs.Org by clicking the “ Our Story ” link and there’s a bunch more there, including how to support the defendants...
Topics: anarchist, mutualaid, repression, ashevillesurvivalprogram, ashevillenc, buncombecounty,...
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This week on the show, we’re sharing an interview with Mixael Laufer of the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective about the the group, building scientific competency, biohacking, authority, intellectual property... oh boy there’s a lot there. Mixael also speaks about some of the projects that 4 Thieves has on offer, including a do it yourself AED setup for defribulation , misoprostol-soaked business cards for self-inducing abortions , instructions for laboratory tools , finding other applications...
Topics: technology, health, medicine, opensource, diy, abortion, hrt, capitalism, healthcare,...
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This week, we spoke with Dr. Alexander Dunlap about a range of topics, such as Degrowth, green anarchism, the violence of extractivism, questions of the conception of renewable energy and resistance to ecocide. We covered a lot in this discussion and he’s written a lot on a range of related topics. Check out his ResearchGate where many pdfs are available or searching his name on AnarchistLibrary.Net . If there's something at ResearchGate that isn't available for downlowd, you can email...
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This week we're re-airing our 2012 interview with Dr. George Katsiaficas, author and contributor to over a dozen books on Peoples Movements and the elucidator of the Eros Effect. For over a decade, Dr. Katsiaficas has been studying the culture and history of South Korea and it's culture and has published the a two volume set, the first of which is entitled Asia's Unknown Uprisings: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century from PM Press. For more of Dr. Katsiaficas' writing, check out...
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This week, we spoke with Maia Ramnath about her essay contribution to ¡ No Pasar á n!: Antifascist Dispatches From a World in Crisis . The essay was entitled “The Other Aryan Supremacy: Fighting Hindu Fascism in the South Asia Diaspora”. For audiophiles out there, there is an audiobook version of this book available from AK Press, though it’s a little pricey it is over 20 hours long! For the hour, we talk about about Hindutva, a brand of Indian ethno-religious-nationalism some have...
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We're re-airing Scott's 2020 interview with Kristian Williams about his book, "Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde" (AK Press, 2020) From the original post: I found this interview extremely illuminating, perhaps like many other people who might not have strong ties to either academia or popular education models of learning, I had sort of written Oscar Wilde off as this kind of white dead rich guy who carried little to no relevance apart from a...
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This week we are re-airing an interview from November 10 th , 2019, by Scott Branson with Eli Meyerhoff about his book “Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World” . In this book, Meyerhoff “traces how key elements of education emerged from histories of struggles in opposition to alternative modes of study bound up with different modes of world-making. Taking inspiration from Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and Indigenous resurgence projects, he charts a new course for...
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This week, we share our chat with Tom Wetzel on his recently published book Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century (AK Press, 2022). Tom is an organizer with Worker’s Solidarity Alliance , an anarcho-syndicalist group relaunching in the SF Bay Area, which publishes to Ideas & Action journal online and is affiliated with the International Worker’s Association IWA/AIT . For the hour we talk about the book, questions of economics and self-management, the...
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This week on The Final Straw, we feature three segments: words from a friend of Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, the forest defender killed by law enforcement on January 18 th outside of Atlanta, Georgia; A-Radio Berlin’s conversation with an activist at Lutzerath encampment in western Germany attempting to block a lignite coal extraction operation by RWE; a discussion of the Tren Maya megaproject by the AMLO administration in Mexico. Remembering Tortuguita First up, we caught up with Eric...
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We’re happy to share Scott’s interview with Rhiannon Firth about her recent book, Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action . You can get the book at a discount using the code “firth30”, on the Pluto Books website or you can get a digital read for free , linked in the shownotes. Rhiannon’s: facebook twitter email Next Week… Next week, we’ll likely share our recent chat with Tom Wetzel on his anarcho-syndicalist / libertarian socialist tome Overcoming Capitailsm (AK Press,...
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This week on the show, we’re sharing two local conversations with community organizers providing mutual aid in Asheville, NC. 2022 NYE Noise Demo & Bailout First up, we’re sharing a short interview with Beck of Pansy Collective, a queer DIY benefit booking collective responsible for Pansy Fest. Beck talks about the 2022 New Years Eve noise demonstration and bailout that Pansy helped to fundraise for (alongside the Asheville Community Bail Fund ), as well as the Buncombe County Jail...
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’m sure that many people coming out of this holiday season, returning from visiting relatives will wonder: “couldn’t we abolish the capitalist family structure?” We’ve got great news! We’re happy to present this conversation between Scott and Sophie Lewis , author of “ Abolish The Family: A Manifesto of Care and Liberation ”. n this episode, Sophie speaks about the book, the ideas and inspirations she’s pulling from, the critique that the family form not only passes property...
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This week on the show, we featured 2 segments: a chat with Michael Kimble & Gerald Griffin about conditions in Donaldson CF prison in Alabama; and Jim J. Ayers, a 42 year resident in 6 generations of lineage at Winnemucca Indian Colony facing eviction by the Tribal Council. Transcript Michael & Gerald at Donaldson CF JJ Ayers at Winnemucca Indian Colony PDF (Unimposed) - pending Zine (Imposed PDF) - pendin Conditions at Donaldson Prison in Alabama First up, anarchist prisoner Michael...
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This week on the show, we have two segments. First up, on Tuesday, December 13 th , I spoke with Kyle Missouri, a resident of the Winnemucca Indian Colony in Humboldt County, Nevada where a longstanding conflict between residents and the Winnemucca Tribal Council has come to a head recently with the evictions of elders, youths, and other residents into the snow. We talk about his family’s roots in the Indian Colony, some background on the place and the conflict with the so-called Roja...
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This week, you'll hear four segments to the show. To hear the latest Sean Swain segment, you can find it at archive.org . This week on The Final Straw Radio, we’re giving you updates on the situation of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party by Shupavu wa Kirima , General Secretary of that formation and partner of Rashid. Rashid has been showing signs of prostate cancer for over a year and his medical visits and care have been clearly delayed and...
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We just passed the 100 th anniversary of the murder by incarceration and hounding of Mexican Revolutionary anarchist communist Ricardo Flores Mag ó n on 21 st of November. For this hour or so, I spoke with Mitchell Cowen Verter, co-author of the 2005 AK Press book, Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader (also free from archive.org ). We talk about RFM’s life, ideas and legacy. Apologies for the sound quality, Mitchell was on wifi at a hostel in Cambodia for the conversation. Other...
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This week, Scott spoke with Rebecca Gross and Robin, Teaching Assistants at University of California Santa Cruz and members of UAW 2865 at the uni, to get informed about the ongoing strike in the UC system for, among other things, a cost of living increase demand for grad student employees and TA’s. The strike has extended throughout the UC system and picks up where the wildcat strikes of 2019 at that campus left off before the corona virus pandemic put so many things on hold. Similar strikes...
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This is a conversation with Matthew Lyons, antifascist researcher, contributor to Three Way Fight Blog and author of, among other books, Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire and contributor to the recent AK Press compilation, No Pasarán: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (edited by Shane Burley). For the hour, Matthew talks about Christian Nationalist and theonomic tendencies and movements like New Apostolic Reformation, Dominionism,...
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This week on The Final Straw we have 4 whopping segments, tidbits in length but whopping in importance. First up, you’ll hear from Zachariah Jazz ( @BlackariahJazz161 on twitter), who distributes alcohol jet heaters with ABQHeaterBloc in so-called Albuquerque, NM, to talk about their efforts to help keep folks living on the streets safer from the elements through mutual aid. ABQ Heater Bloc Instagram, donate funds via venmo @abqheaterbloc It’s Controversial!! youtube channel or facebook...
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This week on The Final Straw, we’re sharing a chat that Scott had with Smirk, Wink & Nudge of the Stop Camp Grayling Offensive, an anarchist effort to oppose the doubling expansion of the largest military base on Turtle Island, based in so-called Michigan. For the hour, the militants talk about the ecological, social, economic and other potential impacts of expanding the military industrial complex and this counterinsurgency training ground in particular. You can learn more at...
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This week on the show, you’ll hear from Diyawn Caldwell, founder of “Both Sides Of The Wall” which has been supporting striking people behind bars across the Alabama Dept of Corrections where incarcerated workers refused their unpaid work over 3 weeks. The strike is on hold, for now, but prisoners continue resistance despite repression. You can learn more abut the group by finding them on social media or visiting BothSidesOfTheWall.com Then, you’ll hear anarchist comrades from the...
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I’m happy to share this interview with anarchist author and historian, Robert Graham about the split in the historic left that led to the birth of the anarchist movement. Robert published the book We Do Not Fear Anarchy, We Invoke It!: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement with AK Press in 2015 and, as I say in the interview, I was excited to have this conversation with Robert since the 150 th anniversary of the first anti-authoritarian International hosted by the...
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This week, we’re airing a conversation with Too Black, communications representative for the defense committee to Free the Pendleton 2. Too Black also hosts the Black Myths podcast . For the hour, Too Black talks about the case of the Pendleton 2, two Black men incarcerated in Indiana who had decades added to their sentences, including decades in solitary confinement, for defending another prisoner from a white supremacist guard officer formation in the Pendleton Prison Uprising, February 1...
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This week on The Final Straw, we feature two portions. First up, you’ll hear from Modibo Kadalie and Andrew Zonneveld of On Our Own Authority! Publishing about the upcoming Atlanta Radical Bookfair happening on October 15 th at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History. Then, you’ll hear a recent interview with Aryanam, a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era , an anarchist grouping based in Iran, Afghanistan and the diaspora to speak about the morality...
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This week, Scott spoke with Mohamed Abdou , a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist activist-scholar who is currently a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo. Mohamed is the author of the recent book, Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances published by Pluto Press in 2022. For nearly 2 hours, Scott and Mohamed speak about Mohamed’s experience of the Tahrir Square uprising of 2011 and the western media...
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First up, we share an interview with Fauve, a radical who recently participated in the anti-coal occupation in the village of Lützerath / Luzerath (aka the ZAD of Rhineland) in western Germany against the company RWE. We talk about RWE’s push to break resistance at Luzerath and the currently-calm Hambach Forest, which activists fear will be attacked by RWE and their goons. More info at https://luetzerathlebt.info/en Transcript PDF (Unimposed Zine) - pending Zine (Imposed PDF) - pending You...
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This week we’re re-airing our 2020 conversation with Wayne Price, longtime anarchist, author and then-member of Bronx Climate Justice North and the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, or MACC , in New York City. From the original post: After reading his book, The Value Of Radical Theory : An Anarchist Introduction to Marx’s Critique of Political Economy (AK Press, 2013), I became excited to speak to him about his views on anarchists engaging Marxist economic concepts and some of...
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This week on the show, we re-air Amar’s 2015 interview with Hilary Klein, author/editor of the book Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories , out from Seven Stories Press. Over the hour, Hilary talks about her 7 years of living in Chiapas and recording the stories and experiences of women there, collecting stories on their behalf. The book covers the Zapatistas experiences before the EZLN uprising of 1994, during that period and after. Discussion address what gender, indigeneity and class...
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This week on the show, we feature a chat with Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery & Tim Holland (aka MC Sole ), who together form the Propaganda By The Seed podcast. You can find the podcast on the channel zero network , Libsyn , and a bunch of streaming services. We hope you enjoy this chat as much as Bursts did. We talk about their project of sharing conversations with various farmers, herbalists, propagators, scavengers, historians and cooks about plants, food autonomy, agriculture mutual...
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This week on TFSR, you’ll hear Watani Tyehimba of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and a supporter and comrade of New Afrikan political prisoner Dr Mutulu Shakur speaking about Dr. Shakur’s life, activism and the struggle for his release since he’s been diagnosed with serious bone cancer. Then, you’ll hear portions of the latest episode of Bad News, the monthly podcast from the anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio and podcast network, A-Radio . The segments included are an interview...
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This week, our guests are Sam and Alex (not their real names). Sam was until recently the co-host of the 12 Rules for What podcast and is the co-author with Alex of their two books, The Post Internet Far Right and The Rise of Ecofascism . Sam is now focusing on writing at Collapsology Sub-Stack and the Collapse Podcast , and you can support Alex’s ongoing work with 12 Rules for WHAT podcast via their patreon or check out the podcast via Apple Podcasts or Channel Zero Network . We talk about...
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This week on The Final Straw, Professor Raymond Craib talks about his book, “ Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age ” out recently from PM Press. We talk about capitalist fundamentalists attempting to create free market utopias, right wing so-called Libertarians, Ayn Rand, neoliberalism and the oxymoronic tendency known as "anarcho-capitalism" at the center of the recent HBO Max series called “The Anarchists”....
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This week, we spoke with Alex, an anarchist squatter in the Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia. They talk about repression by the New Democracy party, struggles against green washing wind turbines around rural Greece, the fires raging through the country, resistance to rape culture, fighting against the building of a metro station in Exarchia and the privatization of public spaces like Strefi Hill, police presence at Universities, anarcho-tourism and the hunger strike of anarchist prisoner...
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This week we are presenting Scott’s interview with Hil Malatino, who is a current professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State University. They are also the author of three books, Trans Care, Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience, and Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad. Scott and Hil speak on many themes which are found in his books, plus lots more topics! Hil Malatino’s work: Trans Care can be found on...
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This week we’re sharing an interview that we conducted with anarchists and abolitionists mostly in and around Manila, the capital of the Philippines. You'll hear from K, Honey, Adrienne, Castle, Magsalin and R. During the chat they share about their projects, discussions of abolitionism in the Philippines, decolonization discourse, informal organizing, accountability and challenging patriarchal dynamics in the traditional left and more....
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First up, you'll hear Minister of Defense of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party, Kevin Rashid Johnson, talk about his diagnosis of prostate cancer and his request for a call in to get the VADOC & his captors at Nottoway Correctional Institution in Virginia to give him the care he needs to survive. Then, an interview with Assembly.Org.UA , a news site based out of Kharkiv about their journalism, disaster capitalism in the midst of pandemic and war, resistance to forced...
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This week, Scott and William talk to Sophie Lewis , author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family and the soon-to-be-released Abolish The Family A Manifest for Care and Liberation (out in October, 2022) about the current political moment that is characterized by attacks on trans people and peoples reproductive abilities. They also talk through what creates this moment, where trans people come into the target of State power being weaponized by the far right, as well as the connections...
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First up, the struggle to Defend the Atlanta Forest and Stop Cop City has been gaining momentum over the last year, in opposition to the building of what would be the largest police urban training center in the so-called USA in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd Uprising, alongside the construction of what would be the country’s largest film sound stage for Blackhall Studios. Coming up, you’ll hear Tony Lane of Defend Atlanta Forest talk about some of the issues involved, the ongoing...
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On Nurturance Culture w Nora Samaran (rebroadcast) This week, we’re re-airing a 2019 conversation with Nora Samaran , author of the essay “The Opposite Of Rape Culture Is Nurturance Culture” , which became the seed of her book “ Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture. ” We talk about harm, entitlement as relates to positions of power like masculinity or whiteness in our cultures, the need for connection ingrained into our biology and sociality, accountability...
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Emre, Rimac, Xero and Anya, members of the Emergency Committee for Rojava join us on the show this week to talk about the escalation of violence and threats of invasion by Turkey into northeast Syria, updates from the region and their thoughts on how people in the West can help folks living under the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria. You can learn more about their work at DefendRojava.Org and find related interviews covering some of the subject matter discussed and past events on...
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Support Jessica Reznicek and Navigating Conflict in Movement This week on the show, we’re airing two portions. Support Jessica Reznicek First up, Charlotte speaks about their friend, political prisoner and water defender Jessica Reznicek who just had an appeal denied of an 8 year sentence and terrorism enhancement for sabotaging the Dakota Access Pipeline with another Catholic Worker prior to DAPL. carrying oil. It’s estimated that the two cost $6 million in lost profits to Energy Transfer...
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This week on the show, we’re featuring a few segments. First up, Chazz speaks about the website UprisingSupport.org which shares the names and cases of people criminalized in relation to the George Floyd Uprising of 2020 across the so-called USA, as well as the importance of growing a culture of anti-repression and resistance. Then, for this year’s June 11 th Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long Term Anarchist Prisoners, you’ll hear supporters reading statements by Toby Shone...
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First up, we’re sharing a blast from the past blast from the past, an interview that we conducted in 2013 via our comrades from A-Radio Berlin with a participant in the autonomous anti-capitalist street movement in Germany in the latter half of the 20 th century known as Autonomen. Specifically, the guest speaks about the context of anonymous street actions during May Day of 1987 in the district of then-West Berlin known as Kreuzberg and about the tactic that became known as Black Bloc....
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Dunstan Bruce is perhaps most famous for his lead vocals and listing of libations in the Chumbawamba pop hit, Tubthumping. But there is so much more to him and that band than that one song. For the hour we touch on some of the band’s 30 year history, their relation as a collective, anarchist band to social justice movements around the world and how they used their fame and money to give back, Dunstan’s recently finished documentary “I Get Knocked Down: The Untold Story of Chumbawamba”...
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This week on TFSR, we are presenting a conversation with three defendants who are in an ongoing legal battle with the city of Asheville. This group is collectively known as the Asheville Park defendants and is made up of 15 people, three of whom are speaking today. They are all facing felony littering charges in connection with a demonstration in December of 2021 against a targeted camp sweep in a local park adjacent to the downtown district. For this interview, we will talk about their case,...
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May 8, 2022
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This week, we spoke with Liaizon Wakest. Liaizon grew up in an anarchist commune in rural America. They can be found climbing into dumpsters from Mexico to Kazakhstan looking for trash to make art with. In recent years they have been focused on research into ethical technology and infrastructural anarchism. For the hour we speak about the interoperable, open source ensemble of federated online publishing servers and platforms known as the Fediverse and its most popular component, Mastadon. This...
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May 1, 2022
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This week we are pleased to present an interview that Bursts did with two members of IWOC (the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee), Caroline works with Millions for Prisoners New Mexico ( @iwocnm and @millionsforprisonersnm on the Fedbook) and IWOC (incarceratedworkers.org) and Xeno is with IWOC Sacramento ( @sacramento_iwoc on Instagram). For the little-over-an-hour they speak on what it’s like to be working with incarcerated folks during the coronavirus pandemic, how prisons and the...
Topics: wsfm, kowa, wcrs, kwrk, kwtf, IWOC, incarcerated workers organizing committee, New Mexico,...
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Apr 24, 2022
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Earthbound Farmers Almanac and Food Autonomy in Bulbancha We’re joined this week by some of the folks behind the Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac , a self-published annual collection of art, comics, facts, articles and incitements to challenge us to thicken our relationship to the land and grow autonomy against state, colonialism and capitalism. You are welcome to read the almanac for free in portions on the Lobelia Commons social media ( fedbook or instascam ). We also talk about spreading...
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Apr 17, 2022
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This week on The Final Straw, we’re featuring a recent conversation with anarchist author and activist, Peter Gelderloos about his latest book, “ The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies For Ecological Revolution From Below ”, published by Pluto Press in 2022. For the hour we speak about critiques of science and Western Civilization that Peter levels, as well as the centrality of struggling on the ground we stand on, creating autonomous infrastructure, resisting colonial extractivism...
Topics: Autonomy, Capitalism, ClimateChange, anarchist, anticolonialism, author, decolonization, degrowth,...
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Apr 10, 2022
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This week we are pleased to present something a little bit new for TFS listeners. This is a kind of informal round table discussion that co host Scott and I had alongside Vicky Osterweil, who has been on the show before to speak on her book In Defense of Looting; A Riotous History of Uncivil Action . We all sat down to talk about a short and thought provoking article which was published in January of 2022 called “ The Interregnum: The George Floyd Uprising, the coronavirus pandemic, and the...
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Apr 3, 2022
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This week, we’re sharing 2 segments on this radio episode. Eric King Speaks First up, you’ll hear Eric King, anarchist prisoner whose recent legal victory against the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the US was featured on our episodes from the week of March 27 th , 2022. Last week, Eric was suddenly transferred out of Colorado toward United States Penitentiary Lee in the southwest portion of Virginia near Johnson City, TN. This is in spite of the fact that Eric should be held at a medium...
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Merced County Prisoner Hunger Strikes This week, you’ll hear a chat with California-based activist Victoria from Merced Under Construction, who talks to us about the prisoner hunger strikes at Merced County Jail and John Latorraca Center. O ver 40 prisoners engaged in hunger strike for 17 days, fighting for issues like protesting black mold, little food, lack of visitation and other issues. The hunger strike ended Saturday, March 28 th , despite the disrespect of the jail administration. You...
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This week, we’re joined again by Aryanum, a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era ( ASRAnarshism.Com ), mostly made up of anarchists from Iran and Afghanistan. We mostly get updates about the situation of anarchists, atheists and feminists in Afghanistan under the Taliban or in an effort to escape as refugees, but we also get a few updates from Iran as well, including the regime’s founding of a national anarchist group called Iranarshism. At the time of this release, we’ve already got...
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Mar 13, 2022
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This week, we spoke with Petr, a Russian anarchist member of the group Autonomous Action, who is living in Europe right now. For the hour we speak about the invasion of Ukraine, a bit about the resistance inside of Russia to the war drums and the Putin regime, the dangers of a nuclear conflict, the impacts of increased sanctions and anarchists organizing across the borders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus against the war and against tyranny. You can learn more about what’s going on by visiting...
Topics: wsfm, kowa, kwrk, kwtf, wcrs, russia, ukraine, ukraine war, anarchist, russian anarchist, putin,...
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Mar 6, 2022
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This week, you’ll hear my chat with Jon Bigger about the status of the monarchy in the UK, the power it wields, the interventions it makes into parliamentary procedure and where we might see hopes of challenging it from an anarchist approach. Jon is an anarchist who is involved with the Anarchism Research Group , writes a column on UK politics at Freedom News and has been involved in the project Class War . You can find him online at twitter and at his website, jonbigger.uk Further reading:...
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On Thursday, February 24 th , I spoke with Ilya, a Russian anarchist living and organizing in Kyiv, Ukraine. We spoke about the relationship between Russia and Ukraine, the Maidan uprising and war in the Donbass, resistance to the invasion of Ukraine and the Putin regime, conspiracy theories about Ukraine promoted by Russia and Russian-aligned media outlets, critiques of the Ukrainian state, and anarchists choosing their own path of self-defense and revolutionary mutual aid in the face of...
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Hey folks. This week, we’re sharing our 2020 chat with Keith Lamar aka Bomani Shakur who is facing execution on November 16 th 2023. We hope you enjoy his insights and check out his support website, KeithLamar.Org and get involved in helping him fight for his life and for justice. We’ll have new content coming out next week. "Bomani Shakur speaks to us from death row at OSP Youngstown in Ohio. Bomani is accused of crimes related to the 1993 Lucasville Uprising he claims innocence of...
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This week, we are re-broadcasting an inteview with the sci-fi and picture book author, technologist and social critic Cory Doctorow . Cory is an editor of the blog BoingBoing , a fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the book we spoke of on this episode was Walkaway , out from Head of Zeus and TOR books. The novel plays with themes of open source technologies, class society, post-scarcity economics, ecological remediation, drop-out culture and liberatory social models. It was...
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This week, we air part of an episode of the Time Talks Podcast (member of the Channel Zero Network alongside TFSR) where Chris "Time" Steel and Bursts share songs about the struggle for abolition and what they like about them. To hear the longer, unedited version, check out our podcast, or check out Time Talks at https://TimeTalks.Libsyn.Com and find his music at: https://thisistime.bandcamp.com/ Here's a list of tracks featured in the radio edition: 1. Dead Prez - Behind Enemy Lines...
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Jan 30, 2022
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Tom Nomad is an organizer based in the Rust Belt and the author of The Master’s Tools: Warfare and Insurgent Possibility and Toward an Army of Ghosts . You can find more of Tom’s writings on The Anarchist Library . Tom is @tom_nomad@kolektiva.social on Mastadon, and on their blog We speak about conspiracy theories and real conspiracies, strategies of tension, the use of extremist actors to set conditions of concentrating power un-democratically and challenging conspiratorial thought...
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